One of the impressively new features of Vegas Pro 21 is the new Insert Adjustment Event. This feature can be easily overlooked if you don't know about it, but a gem for anyone doing serious and advanced compositing tasks.
It functions exactly as the adjustment layer within After Effects. That should explain everything in having such versatility directly in Vegas.
Thanks, Steve. I do a lot of compositing. I have been away from the program for a while, so I missed the "adjustment track" phase - and I understand from a cursory view that the "Adjustment Event" fills some of the gaps of that, more first attempt Adjustment Track.
Steve, could you please list some specific scenarios in which either of these features "fill the bill" and make your compositing life that much easier. I would love to hear from a user on its practical application. Thanks again, Steve!
@Seb-o - Yes, if @Steve_Rhoden could give a screen grab of his TL, utilizing this feature, it'd be very helpful - indeed.
Gentlemen, to best & quickly demonstrate exactly what i mean, here is a short After effects adjustment layer video..... The " Adjustment Event" functions exactly like that within Vegas..(still there is more versatility to it than what is mentioned in the video) !
The adjustment track is totally different from the adjustment event, with the event you have far more control and can drag the edges to lengthen or shorten how far you want it to affect the tracks/events/layers below it, etc.
Another short example that best describe it's versatility:
This is my first use of an adjustment event. I have an empty event with the Title Studio FX applied and an adjustment event on the track above. The adjustment event has a lens flare FX applied. Of course, I could have applied the lens flare FX to the empty event. But then I would have had to keyframe it to appear and disappear when I wanted it to. With the adjustment event, I simply adjusted its length until I got the result I wanted. Much simpler.
Thank you Steve and Jack. So Adj Event. vs Adj Track is one is more flexible mostly in its application by way of a easily adjustable time I/O boundary? Any other noteworthy differences?
Ah, I just thought of one: you could copy and paste. You could layer variations onto different track merging them in different ways, Which leads me to another question. Will one adjustment event, stacked above, "affect" another? Or would they, in effect, 'pass through' another Adj event Any saving of these events as templates? (Well, yes, because you'd already have the saving of fx stacks, well established in Vegas, to answer my own question, just apply that to any such adj. event)
Adjustment tracks affect everything on every track below it, but there's no way to specify where the adjustment starts and ends on the timeline, it's the entire track. Adjustment events let you specify the in and out point of where the adjustments start and end, and you can have multiple adjustment events on one single track, each with their own effects applied to them. This is useful for things such as creating custom transitions (put an adjustment event over the cut or fade between to events below it, then add a bunch of effects to the adjustment event and keyframe various effect parameters to create your transition), or just changing effects applied to a composite shot consisting of several tracks below it, without being forced to apply those effects to every track below the adjustment track across the entire timeline.
Adjustment tracks affect everything on every track below it, but there's no way to specify where the adjustment starts and ends on the timeline, it's the entire track.
To my knowledge, start and endpoint adjustments on an adjustment track can also be made by using keyframes, but I must admit that an adjustment event is easier to handle.